Books
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Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka, a Writer Who Refused to Be Claimed
A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.
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The Essential Don DeLillo
For years when I was younger, and still dreamed that I might be a novelist instead of an editor or…
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‘Butcher’ Tells the (Mostly) True Story of a Very Bad Gynecologist
Through the lens of a 19th-century doctor, Joyce Carol Oates explores gothic medical horror.
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Sebastian Junger Is Reporting Live From the Brink of Death
In his new memoir, Junger, the veteran journalist, makes sense of — and an uneasy peace with — an experience…
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The Best Crime Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far.
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Penguin Random House Dismisses Two of Its Top Publishers
The departures of Reagan Arthur, of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, of Pantheon and Schocken, in a restructuring came…
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Who Was Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Really?
In “Once Upon a Time,” Elizabeth Beller examines the life and death of the woman who was best known for…
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She Survived a Train Accident. Her Train Wreck of a Dad Is Next.
In Garth Risk Hallberg’s new novel, a teenage rebel and her father reconnect amid a sea of their own troubles.
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Domination Meets Inspiration in a Consuming Affair Between Artists
R.O. Kwon’s second novel, “Exhibit,” sees two Korean American women finding pleasure in a bond that knits creative expression and…
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Let’s Not Do Another Civil War if We Can Help It, OK?
As we approach this November’s presidential election, “blood bath” is quickly becoming one of Donald Trump’s favorite new terms. If…